Improvement in gavel-forks



B. WRIGHT & W. C. PARK.

Improvement in Gavel-Forks.

Patented April 25, 1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

BAXTER WEIGHT AND WILLIAM C. PARK, OF CARDIFF, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAVEL-IORKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,080, dated April 25, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BAXTER WRIGHT and WILLIAM G. PARK, of Cardiff, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gavel-Forks; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a sectional side view, and Fig.3 is a front or top view.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to that class of forks that is made with a double head and the invention consists, chiefly, in an improved method of attaching the handle to the head, whereby a connection of greater strength is obtained, with simplicity and cheapness, as hereinafter more fully explained.

In the accompanying drawing, A A are the tines, B bis the double head, and F is the handle.

We attach the handle to the double head by a socket, U, of malleable castiron, which is made with two ears, (I d, and with a pair of jaws, c 0.

By two or three blows with a hammer the jaws c are bent around the headpiece B so as to embrace or grasp it firmly; and after the lower ear d has been bent around the headpiece I), as shown in Fig. 2, the whole is secured by a rivet, 6, through the handle and head-piece b, and the ears d d of the socket.

By this construction the main head-piece B is not cut away and its strength impaired by boring a hole in it for the end of the handle, as ordinarily and the end of the handle is not liable to be broken off, as the full size of its end can be inserted into the socket (3.

The ears 0! d also brace the parts, as shown in Fig. 2-, so that a light casting makes a strong fastening.

The jaws 0 can have one or more small teeth, that will be embedded in B as the jaws are bent around it. These, however, are not necessary with thoroughly-seasoned timber.

We form the bow or guard of the fork by means of curved rods or fingers E E, that are fastened to the front head-piece B, and have a bearing on the upper side of the rear head 11.

An ordinary how can be used; but by this construction of guard the forks pack together more readily into bundles for shipment.

Two of these fingers are only necessary in a four-timed fork, but more are used in a fork of six tines.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In connection with the double-headed fork A B b and handle F, the socket (J, with ears (I 01 and jaws c c, as and for the purpose described.

The above specification of our invention signed by us this 6th day of February, 187].

BAXTER WRIGHT. WILLIAM G. PARK.

Witnesses:

WM. DUNCAN, F. A. MORLEY. 

